Means for making milk products and recovering milk fluids.



No. 809,860. PATENTED JAN. 9, 1906.

o. M. TAYLOR, JR,

MEANS FOR MAKING MILK PRODUCTS AND REGOVERING MILK FLUIDS. APPLICATIONFILED JULY 22, 1904,

m m J 1 WOW! CHARLES M. TAYLOR, JR, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

MEANS FOR MAKING MILK PRODUCTS AND RECOVERING NIILKv FLUIDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, 1906.

- Continuation of application Serial No.160,304, filed June 6, 1903,This application filed July 22, 1904. Serial No. 217,648.

To all. whom it may concern.

Be it known that 1, CHARLES IWLTAYLOR, J r. a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and usefulMeans for Making Milk Products and Recovering Hill; Fluids, of which thefollowing is a specification.

One object of the present invention is to provide for making withoutagitation or fermenr tation a milk product comprising unbroken milk,fatty globules, or buttery constituents by what may be termed selectiveabsorption and for recovering the non-buttery or milky portions, such asskimmed milk and the like.

Another object of the invention is to provide an eflicient, cleanly, anddurable apparatus or appliance by means 'of which the product may bemade rapidly without undue labor and by means of which the skimmed milkand like fluids may be saved.

To these and other ends hereinafter set forth the invention comprisesthe improvements to be presently described and finally claimed.

The nature, characteristic features, and scope of the invention will bemore fully understood from the following description, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, and inWhich Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the various parts ofapparatus embodying features of the invention. Fig. 2 is a sectionalview illustrating a portion of the apparatus with the various partsassembled. Fig. 3 is a perspective view illustrating a modification of aportion of the apparatus, and Fig. 4 is a View illustrating anothermodification.

In the drawings, 1 is a receptacle, and 2 is a detachable lid or coverfor the same. As shown, the receptacle 1 is constructed of sheet metal,and its lid 2 is provided with a depending flange 3, by means of whichit may be fitted comparatively tight, thus excluding dust and the likefrom the interior of the receptacle when the lid is in place.

4 is a partition constructed of material impermeable by the fatty orbuttery constituents and permeable by the non-buttery or milky fluids.Blotting-paper is an example of such material, and it is shown in thedrawings as folded up into box-like form. Beneath the partition 4 isarranged a non-absorbent spacing device or spacer having openings,channels, ducts, or drainage-fluid Ways. 5 is an example of such aspacer, and it is shown to consist of a corrugated, and thereforechanneled,-sheet of metal provided at the high parts of the corrugationswith apertures or drains and upon which the partition is superposed. Amodification of such a spacer is illustrated in Fig. 3, wherein is showna corrugated strip or sheet 6, as of metal, and the spaces 7 between thefolds constitute wells or cells, and the openings at their endsconstitute drains. In Fig. 4 the spacer is composed of intersectingplates or walls having drainage-fluid ways (0. Obviously theconstruction of the non-absorbent spacer can be varied as Well as themateriel from which it is made, the purpose being to use such materialas will not absorb the fluids which are to be recovered, and thereforemetal, glass, hard rubber, and the like can be used. Furthermore, it isalso the purpose to have the spacer exert, so far as may be, adrainingaction in respect to such fluids and the partition 4, and thisaction is induced by the perforations, drains, or drainagefluid waysshown.

In use the non-absorbent spacer is placed in the receptacle 1, and thereis superposed upon it the partition 4, which, if in the form shown onthe drawings, can be secured to place by means of the clips 8. The fluidto be treated, which is of course usually cream and will be sonominated, is placed in any known or convenient way upon the partition4, which by reason of its described properties retains the buttery orfatty constituents and permits the passage of fluids. The latter are byreason of the described action of the spacer delivered in the receptacle1, from which they may be collected. are saved and the operation isrendered very simple and expeditious. At the same time the apparatus iscapable of being readily cleaned and of almost unlimited reuse, with theexception of course of the partition 4.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains that modifications may be made in details without departingfrom the spirit thereof. Hence I do not limit myself further than theprior state of the artmay require; but,

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Apparatus of the class described comprising the combination of apartition impermeable to the buttery or fatty constituents and permeableto the other constituents, a non-absorbent spacer, havingdrain-openings,

In this way all of the constituents the fatty or buttery constituentsand permeable to the other constituents, of a corrugated non-absorbentsheet provided With openings or drains, arranged in contact with oneface of the partition, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name.

CHARLES M. TAYLOR, JR.

WVitIiesses:

W. J. JACKSON, K. M. GILLIGAN.

